Best webpages designing software?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-10-30 12:21pm

Free, and please be gentle with me. The only time I needed to create html pages I used FrontPage.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-10-30 12:30pm

If you want to pay, Macromedia Dreamweaver is very good.

However, if free is your price, then Mozilla Composer (any new version, like 1.5 or so) works pretty well. Just don't expect to be able to upload an entire website at once to your server with it.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-10-30 12:47pm

Crayz9000 wrote: However, if free is your price, then Mozilla Composer (any new version, like 1.5 or so) works pretty well. Just don't expect to be able to upload an entire website at once to your server with it.

Better than FrontPage, right? I want to do some serious learning, since I have two months left as a lazy bum without much to do. Right now, I want to write an help set in html, to use together with Matlab help, for a program I developed. It's not to upload, at least not into my server and not by me. The company can do it, I guess.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-30 01:59pm

Dreamweaver!

It allows you to place objects anywhere on your page with the layout view. Also has uploading capabilities, let's you make cascading style sheets, just about anything you would want.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-30 02:02pm

Free - I was rather partial to Evrsofts FirstPage2000, taught me all I know, which still isnt much, but it gets the job done.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-10-30 02:10pm

On Windows, Notepad.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-10-30 02:24pm

I hardly design anyhing in WYSIWG, I use Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0 pretty much exclusively, and Photoshop/ImageReady and notepad, oh sweet notepad, it's the true MCP, it's great for everything.

Great program for coding, reall like the automatic code-cleaning feature when you save too(it just aligns your code really nicely so it's real easy figure out when you take an overall look at it).

Sorry, none of those are free, except notepad.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2003-10-30 05:04pm

I use Adobe GoLive. Not nearly as convoluted as Dreamweaver and it integrates very nicely with Illustrator and Photoshop/Image Ready which I use heavily for web stuff.

If you are looking for something simpler, I hear that Net Objects Fusion is a good product.

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-10-30 05:12pm

Dreamweaver MX! It plays nicely with the Oracle database. Plus, I don't have time messing with repetative code in notepad, Dreamweaver lets me go in do updates work with dynamic data without a hassel.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-10-30 08:04pm

Don't be a pussy. Hand code the HTML in Notepad.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-30 08:10pm

Dreamweaver is pretty much the best, though GoLive is making strides.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-10-30 10:03pm

I like to mix Mozilla Composer and Metapad.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-10-30 11:31pm

KATE (AKA embedded KWrite+multiple documents + build in console) on Linux, plus SciTE on both. Text folding is cool. However, I'm going to install a plugin for Eclipse(best free IDE for Java ever, and does other things with plugins) for HTML editing, among other things. I've actually found one that isn't half baked, like so many free plugins for languages other than Java (there are quite a few expensive commercial ones).

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-30 11:53pm

I use Dreamweaver to set up the layout, and notepad for fine coding.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-10-31 04:29am

Durandal wrote:On Windows, Notepad.

NOTEPAD.EXE users unite! We are the real HTML gurus!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-31 04:33am

Hethrir wrote:
Durandal wrote:On Windows, Notepad.
NOTEPAD.EXE users unite! We are the real HTML gurus!

Hail Notepad!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-31 04:57am

If you just make basic webpages, I see no reason to bother with anything more sophisticated than Mozilla Composer or (preferably) OpenOffice HTML. I've found that OpenOffice 1.1 generally makes W3C-compliant code (once you edit the doctype to 4.01 transitional), which is handy (not to mention unusual among GUI webpage authoring programs, although it's not as full-featured as the bigger programs).

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2003-10-31 05:39am

I find notepad to be the best. Whatever you do, don't make the mistake I once did and even try and make a webpage with MS Word. *Shudders*

And if you ever need help in web design, http://htmlgoodies.com has always served me well.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-10-31 10:40pm

observer_20000 wrote:I find notepad to be the best. Whatever you do, don't make the mistake I once did and even try and make a webpage with MS Word. *Shudders*

And if you ever need help in web design, http://htmlgoodies.com has always served me well.

Looking at W3C.org is better. htmlgoodies has some errors.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-31 11:00pm

Notepad is the best thing about Windows.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-10-31 11:10pm

Real men make their web pages in notepad....

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-10-31 11:29pm

I have always done my work in notepad, except when certain features that I don't know how to do due to sheer complexity are required, such as Javascript animation of page divisions.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-10-31 11:39pm

I tend to use Notepad, unless if the page is too big.

Even if you decide that directly typing in the text all the time isn't for you, I would recommend at least knowing how to manipulate the HTML directly from the text. It doesn't take too long or too hard to do the basics.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-11-01 09:51am

Notepad is for masochists. Even vi or windows emacs is better. At least get syntax highlighting, and more importantly, formatting.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-01 12:56pm

Pu-239 wrote:Notepad is for masochists. Even vi or windows emacs is better. At least get syntax highlighting, and more importantly, formatting.

I'm sorry, did you just say that using vi was less masochistic than using Notepad?